Shreesha Yelameli

I'm a writer and narrative designer with a background in video games, film, and television.

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Game script

Futile Poisons (Working title)

Logline: A disillusioned waiter with a propensity for brewing poisons attracts a mystifying figure who recruits them to modify the meals of the most powerful and to watch with him as the world burns.

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Genre: Cyberpunk, dystopian, role-playing game, visual novel

Short film script

"Day Before Launch"

Logline: When disaster strikes Leo Kennedy and his game development team on the day before their new game's release, the assistant Ellie Robinson struggles to keep up and find solutions to the crises involved in the making of a video game.

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Genre: Present-day, light drama, workplace drama, Sorkinesque

Television script

Mythic Quest Speculative Scene

Logline: When David unknowingly beats Ian's speedrunning personal
best, he accidentally insults C.W. and makes Ian secretly jealous.

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Genre: Present-day, comedy, workplace comedy, quirky comedy

Television script

Mary Red Rum S01E01
(First 6 pages)

Logline: Amidst religious tensions leading up to the murder of Mary Queen of Scots, a sharp yet naive detective attempts to solve a peculiar killing in the house of a local farmer.

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Genre: Elizabethan era, late 1500s England, murder mystery, drama

NOTE: It's just a six page scene because it was written as a proof of concept for a drama pilot for "Intro to TV Writing" at NYU.

Television script

Heath Dario S01E01

Logline: Distracted as usual, Heath, a college student with the power to stop time when someone curses at him, saves a kid from a couple of muggers in the park, only to discover that his soon-to-be greatest foe just kidnapped his mother!

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Genre: Present-day, action comedy, anime-inspired, superhero, high-concept comedy